Chicago Bears 2025 Draft Class Superlatives: Most impactful selection, best value, biggest risk and more (2025)

The Chicago Bears 2025 NFL Draft Class was finalized on Saturday with eight new rookies joining the already young roster.

The grades are out on all eight selections but I wanted to take the time to breakdown each selection some more and assign Superlatives to each pick, including most impactful, biggest sleeper, and most reliable. Let's get into it.

Well duh the Top-10 selection is the most impactful selection of the eight. Yes, but Colston Loveland's impact on this team is going to be very noticeable once he gets on the field and starts rolling with this offense.

I could have gone with Luther Burden III for this award, and I think both players will be really critical in the passing and run game in their own right.

Yet, I still believe Loveland will have the most impact between the two. The Bears have been studying this guy for literally two years going into this draft and are thrilled with everything he can bring, not only on the field but in the locker room as well.

"It starts with the person more so than the player,” head coach Ben Johnson said. “And I love the tape. I love everything about the tape. But when you get to know him as a man, it really is intriguing. It’s who we want to be going forward in my opinion. He stands for high football character, IQ, intelligence, but he’s a great teammate. When we went to the University of Michigan, everybody was raving about him."

This is the award I feel comfortable giving to Burden. I mean no one saw this coming. Burden was a border-line first-round talent in this draft yet fell into the second-round and continued falling until the Bears were on the clock.

I firmly believe Chicago was planning to go a different direction with the 39th overall pick but seeing Burden on the board was a surprise to everyone in the draft room.

You can easily see it on their faces when the selection was made. They were fired up to land this guy because of what he can bring to the offense. Burden's going to make other teams pay for passing on him.

"He’s an electric player, playmaker, highly competitive, and the run-after-the-catch is special. Probably the best in this class," general manager Ryan Poles said.

Versatility defined the entire draft class for the Bears but the biggest upside out of the eight selections has to be Ozzy Trapilo. Trapilo is a massive human and brings some much needed size to the offensive line, even if he doesn't start right out of the gate.

Trapilo has experience at both tackle positions, giving the team a healthy competition at both bookends on the offensive front.

Trapilo will get the opportunity to compete for both starting jobs and will push the other players fighting for the same role. And if it doesn't work out for him in the end, the Bears learned in 2024 how important it is to have high-level depth in the waiting.

This would could turn out really well for the Bears or blow up in their face. Shemar Turner isn't the conventional Ryan Poles selection but he definitely is someone that defensive coordinator Dennis Allen was pounding on the desk for on Day 2.

Turner plays with a violent, relentless nature and at times his aggressiveness can come back to bite his entire team. He's been caught with more personal foul penalties on the field than you'd like but at the same time he's ultra-disruptive and brings a level of energy the entire defensive front was lacking.

If the Bears and Allen can truly harness Turner's killer mindset but limit the drive-killing mistakes, the team will have a fiery player to rotate and develop behind Grady Jarrett.

"Part of it is just been more disciplined and playing selfless to know when you're doing those things you're hurting the entire team," Poles explained. "We'll continue to educate him when he's in the building on that part. It's one of those things where you want that edge in your defensive linemen and I feel like if you can pull that back a little bit, that's a lot easier than having to push guys. I also think that is contagious."

This one is a two-parter. First it's a big question mark because few people knew who this guy was coming into the draft and were questioning the decision after the pick was submitted. But, at the end of the day, multiple teams were in fact interested in this guy and intrigued by his speed following the Maryland Pro Day.

Over 10 teams invited him in for a 30-visit including the Bears, who were impressed by Hyppolite's football IQ and how they can further unlock his game.

Which brings us to our second question. How will the Bears initially use him to justify the fourth-round selection on a player many projected to go undrafted? Hyppolite has early special teams ability given his high-flying speed and on defense it's all up to how Dennis Allen views his impact behind Tremaine Edmunds and T.J. Edwards.

"[He's] someone we were really excited about. A guy that is extremely smart, tough, and one thing talking to DA, we want to continue to add to our team speed. And he can fly... We like the combination of speed and the intelligence," Poles said.

The fact the league let a guy like this fall into the fifth-round is insane. There's few cornerbacks in this draft who have the combination of size and speed like Zah Frazier brings to the game and both qualities are what the Bears were lacking on the outside.

I wrote after the pick how Frazier reminds me of Riq Woolen , another lanky fast cornerback out of UTSA who also wasn't selected until the fifth-round. Woolen went on to earn Pro Bowl recognition in his first season with the Seattle Seahawks.

Frazier has that same kind of potential playing in this scheme going up against some of the bigger receivers on the outside. And his ball skills will come into play considering other teams will be looking to avoid throwing toward Jaylon Johnson.

"I actually got a text in February from Al Harris saying 'Hey this guy Zah Frazier, he's long, I think we can develop him as a press corner and I think we can get him in the fourth- or fifth-round.' And it played out exactly that way which was pretty cool," Poles shared.

Again another two-parter with this specific award because first people were really sleeping on this guy in the draft. Luke Newman was the 22nd ranked guard in the class according to The Athletic's Dane Brugler. That was criminally low for a player who shined in front a lot of people at the Shrine Bowl and allowed zero sacks in 2024.

The other thing about his Shrine Bowl performance that caught the attention of the Bears was seeing him compete at all three positions on the interior of the offensive line. Before transitioning to guard at Michigan State, he was also a full-time starter at left tackle while at Holy Cross.

He adds a lot of value to the offensive line depth and will be a real sleeper until we actually get the chance to see what he can do on the field.

"Physical, tough player that can also play guard and center" Poles said about Newman. "He can handle the communication so we're really excited about developing him."

Reliable means two things in the case of drafting Kyle Monangai. Everyone was freaking out for the Bears not selecting a running back early in a deep class and the team was clearly relying on circling back around to Kyle Monangai late after missing out on other backs throughout the weekend.

And overall, Monangai is one of the most reliable backs in the draft. The team's newest addition to the backfield had zero fumbles on 676 career carries in his career while rushing for 1,200+ yards in each of the last two seasons.

He's got some shades of Kareem Hunt to him, someone Eric Bieniemy turned into a 1,300 yard player as a rookie in the NFL despite being a third-round pick. Not to mention Bieniemy's work with another Rutgers seventh-round pick in Isiah Pacheco, who rushed for 830 yards and five touchdowns as a rookie while he was still the OC.